Merkel holds major lead ahead of Sunday’s vote

German chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party holds a fifteen percent lead in the latest polls ahead of federal elections on Sunday.

Whiles she appears poised for victory, five smaller parties are jockeying for position and a possible place in the next government.

Ira Spitzer has more from Berlin.

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